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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
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This New Archeological Museum Is the Largest in the World — With 100,000 Items From Ancient Times
3,000-year-old writing boards with school notes and math exercises, ornate sarcophaguses, and towering stone slabs, known as stelas, containing government edicts in hieroglyphs. Kate McMahon/Travel + ...
Anyone who can decode 5,000-year-old stone slab can get £800,000
The Indus civilisation had flourished for centuries and built one of the world's first urban societies, but the cause of its ...
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Translate this Ancient Script and Earn $1 Million
Are these ancient symbols complete words, part of words, or part of sentences? The solution will earn the successful ...
Peter Frampton Performs Exclusive ‘The Art of Music’ Show at The Met with Chase United Members
In an intimate crowd of Chase United Members, the Rock and Roll legend performed for the live taping of PBS's 'The Art of Music.' ...
A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...
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A cat’s guide to political corruption
Maybe the Egyptian hieroglyphics are cat stories ... The novel’s narrative is kind of like Kubrick’s film, Barry Lyndon (1975), set around the Seven Years’ War, in that the more Langdya climbs the ...
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50 free things to do in Dubai in 2025
The now iconic pair of wings, set against a backdrop of the world’s tallest ... from carved ceilings and an Elephant Clock in the Indian court to hieroglyphics and papyrus columns in the Egyptian ...